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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH MAYER, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

CORSET.

BJPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 328,130, dated October 13, 1885 Application filed December 1, 1884. Serial No. 149,227. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH MAYER, of Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

Corsets have been made with eyelets at the back, near the edges of the half. sections, and through these eyelets a lace has been threaded. Corsets have also been made with rows of eyelets in the sections for the reception of laces, by means of which the corset has been laced up to vary its shape. These eyelets, as far as they went, acted as ventilators to the corset.

My invention is made for lessening the labor of uniting the sections of the corset together, for increasing the strength of the corset, and at the same time for ventilating the entire corset.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a representation of one-half of a corset, and Fig. 2 is a section in larger size, showing the manner in which the edges of the comet sections are united by the eyelets.

The sections composing the corset are cut out of the usual heavy woven fabric, and the edges of the sections that come outside are folded in. The sections are stitched together to form the bone-pockets, and the sections are prepared in the usual manner in all respects, except in regard to the uniting of one section to the other. The drawings illustrate the shape of sections that may be used also, the clasp and steels at a, and the eyelets for the lacings at b. These parts may be of any desired character.

In the manufacture of corsets difficulty has heretofore arisen in uniting one section to the next in such a firm and reliable manner that there is no risk of such sections separating or the stitching breaking apart under the strain to which the parts are often subjected.

My present invention relates to the corset in which the sections are united by eyelets to render the union of the sections more durable, and at the same time to form openings that ventilate all parts of the corset.

In carrying out my invention the edger) of one section is introduced between the inwardly-folded edges 0 o of the next section, and the thicknesses of the fabric are perforated, and eyelets 3 introduced and clinched in the usual manner, so as to firmly unite the sections to gether and render the corset very strong and J. MAYER.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, WILLIAM G. Morr. 

